Roberto Magris

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Roberto Magris (born June 19, 1959 in Italy ) is an Italian jazz pianist , composer and arranger . He was born in Trieste , Italy and now lives in the USA .

Life

In the 1980s he led the jazz trio Gruppo Jazz Marca and recorded three albums, Comunicazione Sonora (1982), Aria di Città (1983) and Central Europe (1986), which were reissued in 2006 by the English label Arision. In 1987 he formed his Italian quartet which worked for nearly 20 years, touring Europe , Asia , Australia and South America and recording two albums, Life in Israel (published by Jazzis) and Maliblues . In the 1990s he founded the acid jazz groups DMA Urban Jazz Funk and Alfabeats Nu Jazz , which performed in Europe and America and recorded two albums, Up To The Beat (2003) and Alfabeats Nu Jazz - Stones (2006). In 1998 Magris founded the Europlane Orchestra (a Central European jazz company sponsored by the INCE-CEI Central European Initiative ), which includes several jazz musicians from various Central European countries. With the Europlane Orchestra he recorded 3 albums, Live At Zooest , Plays Kurt Weill and Current Views (published by Soul Note).

In 2005 Magris teamed up with Hungarian saxophonist Tony Lakatos on the album Check-In (published by Soul Note ). In 2006 Magris worked with bassist Art Davis and drummer Jimmy Junebug Jackson on the album Kansas City Outbound (published by JMood). In the same year he worked with the alto saxophonist Herb Geller on the album Il Bello del Jazz (published by Soul Note). A few years later, JMood released another album with Herb Geller called An Evening with Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio - Live in Europe 2009 .

In the United States, Magris became the musical director of JMood, recording two albums in honor of trumpeter Lee Morgan , two albums in trio with Elisa Pruett and Albert "Tootie" Heath dedicated to the music of pianist Elmo Hope and the legacy of the alto saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley . He has also recorded an album in Los Angeles with Idris Muhammad and saxmen Paul Carr and Michael O'Neill, Mating Call , an album with Philadelphian Sam Reed, a double CD in homage to the bebop era Aliens in a Bebop Planet , three albums with his Kansas City trio ( Enigmatix , Need to Bring out Love and World Gardens ), Roberto Magris Sextet Live in Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery with a group including Brian Lynch , Sun Stone with Ira Sullivan and Suite! , Recorded in Chicago with a group including trumpeter Eric Jacobson and tenor saxophonist Mark Colby.

In Europe, Magris has performed at festivals and in jazz clubs with the MUH Trio (Roberto Magris / František Uhlíř / Jaromir Helešic Trio), which is based in Prague and recorded the albums Prague After Dark in 2016 and A Step Into Light in 2020 ( both published by JMood).

Magris has given concerts for piano solo and for jazz piano, orchestra and strings with the big band Ritmo Sinfonica from Verona and the orchestra Giovanile del Veneto and recorded the album Restless Spirits - the big band Ritmo-Sinfonica Città di Verona plays the music of Roberto Magris (edited by Velut Luna).

All About Jazz critic Edward Blanco described Magris as one of the best piano players in the world .

Jazz critic Ira Gitler wrote: As a pianist, [Magris] reflects some of his most admired models - Wynton Kelly , Tommy Flanagan , Bill Evans , Kenny Drew , Jaki Byard , Randy Weston , McCoy Tyner , Andrew Hill , Paul Bley , Don Pullen, and Steve Kuhn - (a diverse group indeed) in his own way. There's a quick, supple right hand and the rich harmonies of the two-handed transition in his playing that don't necessarily invoke immediate comparisons to the above or any other.

Discographic notes

  • Gruppo Jazz Marca - Comunicazione Sonora (IAF, 1982 - re-issue Arision, 2005)
  • Gruppo Jazz Marca - Aria di Città (IAF, 1983 - re-issue Arision, 2009)
  • Gruppo Jazz Marca - Central Europe (Gulliver, 1986 - reissue Arision, 2006)
  • Roberto Magris Israsextet - Life In Israel , with Ofer Israeli, Larry Smith u. a. (Jazzis, 1990)
  • Roberto Magris & The DI Project - Music of Today , with Achim Goettert, Joerg Drewing, Albrecht Riermeier , Martin Klingeberg , Rudi Engel u. a. (Splasch, 1992)
  • Maliblues (Map, 1994)
  • DMA Urban Jazz Funk - Up to the Beat (Map, 2003)
  • Europlane Orchestra - Live at Zooest (Zooest, 1998)
  • Europlane Orchestra - Plays Kurt Weill , with Ines Reiger a . a. (Pull, 2000)
  • Roberto Magris Europlane feat. Tony Lakatos - Check-In , with Tony Lakatos , Michael Erian, Robert Balzar , Gabriele Centis and Fulvio Zafret ( Soul Note , 2005)
  • Alfabeats Nu Jazz - Stones (Oasis, 2006)
  • Roberto Magris Europlane feat. Herb Geller - Il bello del Jazz , with Herb Geller , Darko Jurkovic, Rudi Engel and Gabriele Centis (Soul Note, 2006)
  • Current Views , with Bill Molenhof , Philip Catherine , Roberto Ottaviano , Vitold Rek u. a. (Soul Note, 2009)
  • Kansas City Outbound with Art Davis and Jimmy Junebug Jackson (JMood, 2008)
  • Big Band Ritmo-Sinfonica Città Di Verona Plays The Music Of Roberto Magris - Restless Spirits (Velut Luna, 2009)
  • Mating Call , with Paul Carr, Michael O'Neill, Elisa Pruett and Idris Muhammad (JMood, 2010)
  • Roberto Magris Quartet With Voice - Canzoni Italiane In Jazz (Pop-Eye, 2011)
  • Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 1 with Brandon Lee, Logan Richardson , Elisa Pruett and Albert "Tootie" Heath (JMood, 2012)
  • One Night In With Hope And More, Vol. 1 with Elisa Pruett and Albert Tootie Heath (JMood, 2012)
  • Aliens In A Bebop Planet with Matt Otto, Dominique Sanders, Brian Steever, Pablo Sanhueza and Eddie Charles (JMood, 2012)
  • Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris - Ready For Reed with Sam Reed, Kendall Moore, Steve Lambert, Dominique Sanders, Brian Steever and Pablo Sanhueza (JMood, 2013)
  • Cannonball Funk'n Friends with Hermon Mehari, Jim Mair, Dominique Sanders, Alonzo Scooter Powell (JMood, 2013)
  • One Night In With Hope And More, Vol. 2 with Elisa Pruett, Brian Steever and Albert Tootie Heath (JMood, 2013)
  • Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan Vol. 2 with Hermon Mehari, Jim Mair, Peter Schlamb, Elisa Pruett, Brian Steever and Pablo Sanhueza (JMood, 2013)
  • An Evening With Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio - Live In Europe 2009 , with Herb Geller , Nikola Matosic and Enzo Carpentieri (JMood, 2014)
  • Enigmatix with Dominique Sanders, Brian Steever, Pablo Sanhueza and Monique Danielle (JMood, 2015)
  • Need To Bring Out Love with Dominique Sanders, Brian Steever, Julia Haile and Monique Danielle (JMood, 2016)
  • The MUH Trio - Magris / Uhlir / Helesic Trio - Prague After Dark with František Uhlíř and Jaromir Helesic (JMood, 2017)
  • Roberto Magris Sextet Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery with Brian Lynch , Jonathan Gomez, Chuck Bergeron, John Yarling and Murph Aucamp (JMood, 2017)
  • World Gardens with Dominique Sanders, Brian Steever and Pablo Sanhueza (JMood, 2018)
  • Sun Stone with Ira Sullivan , Mark Colby, Shareef Clayton, Jamie Ousley, Rodolfo Zuniga (JMood, 2019)
  • Suite! with Mark Colby, Eric Jacobson, Eric Hochberg, Greg Artry, PJ Aubree Collins (JMood, 2019)
  • The MUH Trio - Magris / Uhlir / Helesic Trio - A Step Into Light with František Uhlíř and Jaromir Helesic (JMood, 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mick Carlon Roberto Magris Eyes To The Swinging Future JazzTimes
  2. ↑ Raul D'Gama Rose Roberto Magris In The Tradition Jazzdagama
  3. ↑ Marc Myers Interview at Jazzwax JazzWax
  4. ↑ Mike Jeffers Interview with Roberto Magris Chicago Jazz Magazine
  5. ↑ Jerry D'Souza Roberto Magris: Forging Ahead All About Jazz
  6. ^ Gerlando Gatto A Proposito Di Jazz A Proposito di Jazz
  7. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris & The Europlane Orchestra: Current Views All About Jazz
  8. ↑ Jack Bowers Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In All About Jazz
  9. ↑ C. Michael Bailey Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-In All About Jazz
  10. ↑ Jerry D'Souza Roberto Magris: Kansas City Outbound All About Jazz
  11. ↑ Budd Kopman Roberto Magris Europlane: Il Bello Del Jazz All About Jazz
  12. ↑ Jack Bowers An Evening With Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio All About Jazz
  13. ^ C. Michael Bailey, An Evening With Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio AllAboutJazz
  14. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris Quintet: Morgan Rewind Vol. 1 All About Jazz
  15. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris Septet: Morgan Rewind Vol. 2 All About Jazz
  16. ↑ Sean J. O'Connell Roberto Magris: Morgan Rewind Vol. 2 Down Beat
  17. ↑ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris Trio: One Night In With Hope and More Vol. 1 All About Jazz
  18. ↑ C. Michael Bailey Roberto Magris Trio: One Night In With Hope and More Vol. 2 All About Jazz
  19. ↑ Jack Bowers Roberto Magris Quintet: Cannonball Funk'n Friends All About Jazz
  20. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris Quintet: Mating Call All About Jazz
  21. ↑ Jack Bowers Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready For Reed All About Jazz
  22. ↑ John Ephland Roberto Magris Space Trek: Aliens in a Bebop Planet Down Beat
  23. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris: Enigmatix All About Jazz
  24. ↑ Jack Bowers Roberto Magris: Enigmatix All About Jazz
  25. ^ Carlo Wolff Roberto Magris: Enigmatix Down Beat
  26. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris: Need To Bring Out Love All About Jazz
  27. ^ Marc Myers Roberto Magris: World Gardens JazzWax
  28. ^ Raul D'Gama Rose Roberto Magris: World Gardens JazzdaGama
  29. ^ Carlo Wolff Roberto Magris Sextet: Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery Down Beat
  30. ↑ Randy Freedman Roberto Magris Sextet: Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery Chicago Jazz Magazine
  31. ↑ Raul D'Gama Rose Roberto Magris Sextet: Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery JazzdaGama
  32. ↑ Yves Sportis Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone Jazz Hot
  33. ^ Marc Myers Roberto Magris Sextet: Sun Stone JazzWax
  34. ^ Jerome Wilson Roberto Magris: Sun Stone All About Jazz
  35. ^ Dan McClenaghan Roberto Magris: Suite! All about jazz
  36. ^ Edward Blanco Roberto Magris: Suite! All about jazz
  37. ^ Karl Ackermann Roberto Magris: Suite! All about jazz
  38. ↑ Hrayr Attarian Roberto Magris: Suite! Chicago Jazz Magazine
  39. ^ C. Michael Bailey MUH Trio: Prague After Dark All About Jazz
  40. ↑ Jack Bowers MUH Trio: Prague After Dark All About Jazz
  41. ^ Edward Blanco MUH Trio: A Step Into Light All About Jazz
  42. ^ Raul D'Gama Rose Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica from Verona: Restless Spirits All About Jazz
  43. ^ Edward Blanco Review of Magris album Roberto Magris: Need to Bring Out Love All About Jazz
  44. ^ Mick Carlon Roberto Magris: Eyes to the (Swinging) Future, A Complementary, but not Conflicting, Approach to Jazz JazzTimes , October 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Magris, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste